Tulsi Byrne (MA International Affairs ’15) came to The New School looking for a career change. With an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Economics and a background working in compliance for a financial service firm, Byrne was looking for a masters program where she could apply her international development interest in a business context.
“The most important things I learned during my time at The New School were the skills that I acquired through my statistics and economics courses and the refinement to my writing skills in the intensive research seminars,” says Byrne.
During her time at The New School, Bryne took a data visualization class, in which she applied the skills she developed in the program to lead a data project with the United Nations Global Compact, the UN's corporate sustainability initiative. This role, which started as an internship, turned into a full-time job. During her time with the UN Global Compact, Byrne served first as manager of Social Sustainability and Gender Equality, then as manager of Integrity, a position that required drafting and developing documents.
“From a content perspective,” Byrne says, “the classes I took on human rights, natural resources, gender, and corporate sustainability provided strong theoretical frameworks that I could apply to my job at the UN Global Compact and beyond.”
Byrne recently left the UN Global Compact to take a position on the Responsible Investing team at Nuveen, an asset management company. In this role, she draws on her experience in financial services and sustainability, integrating environmental, social, and governance issues into investment decisions.
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